Hypocrisy or Consistency? The Church and Sexual Sins

Thinking Fellows

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History, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Apologetics, Theology

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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In this episode of The Thinking Fellows, the hosts take on a challenging question: Are Christians hypocritical when it comes to sexual sins? This discussion is often raised in conversations about LGBTQ issues and the Church’s stance on morality.

The Fellows explore how the Sixth Commandment applies to all sexual sins and emphasize that the Church’s teaching should be consistent—preaching repentance and forgiveness for every violation, not just the culturally controversial ones. They also push back on the common accusation that churches are obsessed with homosexuality, pointing out that society, not the Church, is hyper-fixated on the issue.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast.
0:22.6	My name is Caleb Keith and the Thinking Fellows is brought to you by the 1517 podcast network of shows.
0:29.5	You can go to 1517.org slash podcasts to see all of our shows there.
0:34.9	Today I am joined by Bruce Hillman and Adam Francisco.
0:39.3	Scott Keith is on the road, traveling to northwest Arkansas while we record.
0:45.3	Hopefully he enjoys his trip.
0:48.4	No, no airline accidents while he's in the air or anything like that.
0:52.8	If you're really cool, Caleb, you would, after you, or when you do the editing of this,
0:58.2	you would splice in, is it Kenny, not Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson on the road again in the background?
1:04.8	Yeah, he is on the road a lot.
1:06.5	So, yeah, so he will be missed.
1:10.0	Today's topic, maybe, yeah.
1:13.1	Today's topic, I think, is an interesting one.
1:17.0	It's one that came, as I was talking to some friends and maybe some examples from people in their lives or from questions in Bible study.
1:25.3	And it has to do with Christian hypocrisy,
1:28.3	which we've talked about in the past
1:30.8	and is a common thing levied against Christians
1:34.9	or concern levied against Christians by,
1:37.5	I would say particularly people who have left the faith,
1:41.7	left the church.
1:43.0	And that is that Christians have uneven or unequal standards
1:48.1	when it comes to God's law. And today, a lot of that has to do with, I think, what people
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